Today's installment of campaign-related news items that won't necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:
* The gubernatorial rematch is set for Wisconsin, where Gov. Scott Walker (R) will once again face Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D), this time in a recall election next month.
* A new national Reuters/Ipsos poll shows President Obama leading Mitt Romney by seven, 49% to 42%, thanks in part to a larger gender gap.
* In Iowa, Public Policy Polling shows Obama leading Romney by 10 points, 51% to 41%.
* The Obama campaign is launching a new round of Spanish-language broadcast ads targeting Hispanic voters in Colorado, Florida, and Nevada. The new ads tout the benefits of the Affordable Care Act.
* The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is already rallying to support Republican congressional campaign efforts, launching ads in Florida, Missouri, Hawaii, and Ohio in the hopes of electing a GOP majority in the Senate.
* On the other hand, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has reserved $14.1 million worth of fall airtime in Virginia, Missouri, and Montana, hoping to prevent those seats from flipping to Republican control.
* Sen. Scott Brown's (R-Mass.) preoccupation with Elizabeth Warren's (D) American Indian heritage is getting kind of creepy.
* And on a related note, Obama's popular enough in Massachusetts that Warren is airing ads connecting her campaign to the president.
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I find it somewhat disturbing that any voter would choose a republican given the GOP's attacks on women,Latinos,the poor,the middle class, education,science and their record of debt that was spent mostly on war profiteering and corporate tax breaks.
well, latinos won't vote republican if you can watch this video on youtube
"why latinos won't vote republican" and understand that republican lost the latino
vote...
in some distressing news
With 88% of West Virginia precincts reporting Tuesday night, an obscure federal prison inmate, Keith Judd was holding steady at 40% of the vote and had won six counties.
Judd is also known as federal prison inmate Number 11593-051 at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Beaumont, Texas,
He's serving a 210-month sentence for extortion and making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999.
According to both state and national Democratic Party rules, Keith Russell Judd is entitled to receive at least one delegate from West Virginia for the Democratic National Convention.
Judd ran particularly strong in West Virginia’s coal country, carrying the labor stronghold of Mingo County, among others.
I thought being in prison disqualified a person from holding public office. I know it's West Virginia but Really?!
Ok, all you PC Racists out there, Warren's claim to being "indian" is a VERY BIG deal here in Indian Country. The one thing we don't need is another white plastic "indian" going around claiming to be descended from a "Cherokee Princess." ROTFLOL!! Someone parading around getting their jollies by falsely claiming Native heritage is about as racist to us as a person can get (short of leading a genocidal massacre--are you listening Andy Jackson? Newt Gingrinch?).
And it is a particularly big deal politically given the Democrat's recent history of racist activity against Native people in New England (are you listening "Dick" Blumenthal?--http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2010/01/11/%E2%80%98enemy-of-sovereignty%E2%80%99-to-seek-us-senate-seat-81892
1/32 heritage does NOT make you indian!! Of the 600+ tribes in the United States, I don't know of one acknowledged tribe that would accept someone into the tribe with that little blood quantum. And I know for sure that none of the three (3) acknowledged Cherokee tribes would let such a person get away with that kind of b*llsh*t on their tribal land.
The only people Warren would have made contact with, with that limited a Native heritage, would have been other members of the Wannabe Tribe, many of whom did use this fake "heritage" to game the system (are you listening Ward Churchill?).
Elizabeth Warren owes all tribal people a deep and sincere apology for her racist history. You white folks can deal with any other issues.
You'd better get ready for this:
"Elizabeth Warren: The Ward Churchill of Harvard"
angeleno
May I inquire what is your tribal affiliation? Just curious. I have no Native American ancestry whatsoever. I'm Puerto Rican and Jewish. The only tribal affiliation I can claim is that my Jewish grandmother said we are ha' Levi. The Puerto Rican side is Spanish (mostly Castillian) with a hint of Corsican.
Gabrielino.
We come from the consolidation of several Mission Indian tribes that, alone, would have passed on. Yes, we're still here, even though (I'm a little ashamed to say), small as we are, we've split up into competing political factions. It happens, sad to say.
angeleno
I know of the Gabrielino/Tongva. I even have packed away in a storage unit one of the few books about your people (California's Gabrielino Indiansby Bernice Johnson). I know yor people have been trying for Federal recognition for years. I have met some Gabrielinos affiliated th San Gabriel Mission as they came to the institution I work at. Most notably to celebrate the 70th birthday of Jane Goodall. They seemed nice.
I am sad to see that there are competing political factions among your people being so few of you still around . But I admire your people for still being here! After all that has happened to your people that you are still here is a thing to be respected and admired. I was born in California. I grew up here. But I realize there were people here long before me and every other immigrant people who came to California. I believe I have to respect that.
Thank you for sharing your heritage with me.